The Monthly “Performance Master’ Book Tuning: The Holistic Performance Management Nov. 2018

Corporate Performance Management is a management control from strategy till shop floor.  "If you can't measure, you can't manage," legendary management guru Peter Drucker once asserted. Managing performance means understanding results, setting metrics, fixing plans, and making decisions to ensure it happens. It takes multifaceted approaches from multidimensional perspectives to unlock digital performance and catalyze change.          ...

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The Art of Creativity

Creativity has many “ingredients.” It doesn’t live inside a box, but a type of out-of-box thinking.  Creativity is everything that one has seen, felt, touched, dreamed. All our experiences are completely reconfigured in a way that mixes up all these "sense and sensitivity." The poet, capturing a thought, a phrase, finishes it by conveying the deep thinking, and then printing it; but the meaning of the artwork can have multidimensional manifestations....

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The CIO as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer”: Make Some New Twists to Reinvest IT

The aggressive role of IT today for many organizations is a business solutionary, information master, change agent and a digital transformer. The digital world is so technology-driven and information-intensive, IT needs will only expand. The role of IT and that of the CIO is going through significant changes. IT leaders must understand the business from different angles to provide guidance, direction for leading change proactively. The IT department...

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 11/29/2018

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2.8 million page views with 5200+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “Digital Master” book series includes 25 books to share insight from the multidimensional digital lens and perceive the multi-faceted impact the digital era upon us is...

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Harnessing Innovation by Practicing Open Leadership Styles

The digital leaders are multi-dimensional thinkers and versatile innovators themselves. Innovation is more than designing new products or services, it is about establishing and nurturing a way of thinking where innovation is in every aspect of the business. The art of innovation is that it involves new ways of bringing together ideas and resources to create something novel. The science of innovation is to take a structural approach to manage innovation....

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The Monthly Insight of “Digital Quality”: The Digital Quality Readiness Nov. 2018

Organizational excellence is achieved by delivering qualified products or services and continuously improving business performance. Quality is defined by a number of factors such as efficiency, effectiveness, flexibility, innovation, or maturity, as a degree of quality is in everything people do and experience.           The Digital Quality Readiness The Digital Quality Readiness Quality has both...

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Playing an Innovation Oddball: Celebrate Failures

Creativity is an out-of-the-box thinking, so playing the oddball is part of innovation.  Innovation in the digital era is coming at seemly a much faster pace, more change, and more potential disruptions, with a broader scope, scale, and impact on the business’s surviving and thriving. However, in most companies, the risk-allergic minds dominate the workplace and protect the interests of narrow-short-sighted benefit. Keep in mind though, innovation...

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Running Creative, Persuasive, and Logical IT

By blending logic and creativity properly, IT can be used as a tool, enabler, catalyzer, and a digital platform to orchestrate change and digitalization. Digital transformation represents a break from the past and presents a high level of impact and complexity. With the exponential growth of information and often technology-led digital disruptions, IT is being elevated to the “light power” of the business for identifying business opportunities...

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The Monthly “Digital Hybridity” Book Tuning: The Hybrid Workforce and WorkPlace Nov. 2018

The digital paradigm that is emerging is the sociological organization which is alive, holistic, vibrant, energetic, responsive, fluid, innovative and resilient. Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. The digitalization flattens the organizational hierarchy and blurs the functional, organizational and geographical borders in the business ecosystem....

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Three Digital Barriers Limit the Board’s Strategic Oversight Effectiveness

Don’t be overwhelmed by the sea of information and pervasive digitalization, and don't get limited by the "VUCA" digital new normal.  Organizations across the sectors are steadily moving into the digital era with characteristics of hyperconnectivity and fierce competitions. There’s knowing unknown, there’s unknowing unknown. The corporate board as senior leadership team has to overcome many obstacles and numerous pitfalls in order to lead effectively....

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The CIO as Chief Improvement Officer: Three Perspectives of Next Level of Digital Maturity

CIOs have to deal with rapid changes, constant ambiguity, increasing complexity, and unprecedented uncertainty.  With the increasing pace of changes and exponential growth of information, how successfully the organization can handle digital disruption depends on how fast and capable they can adapt to changes. The ultimate goal of the business either today or future is to achieve the high-performance business result and accelerate the high-level...

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The Monthly “Digital Gaps” Book Tuning: Identify and Bridge Learning Gaps Nov. 2018

Bridging the 'gap of opportunity' between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge. “Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Business” is a guidebook to help digital leaders and professionals today identify, analyze, and mind multiple gaps with the multidisciplinary insight and holistic understanding. Today’s digital organization simply just can’t stand still, bridging the 'gap of opportunity' between where you are and...

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